1 in 5 people will be obese by 2025, study says-- Demi Tomasides, 1st period

This article had some interesting but alarming facts. I'm just going to bullet point the main ones out for you.

• More men is obese than underweight in 136 countries
• More women is obese than underweight in 165 countries
• In 1975, 2.6% of the world's population was obese; in 2014, that number jumped to 8.9%.
• High-income English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) account for more than a quarter of the world's obese people. Coming in second, though, are the Middle East and North Africa, which has 26 million severely obese people, or 13.9% of the world's severely obese population.

This could just account for my ignorance on the subject, but the most interesting fact to me was how the Middle East and North Africa hold the second largest amount of severely obese people. I imagined that those two countries especially would be way far down on the list, due to the generalizations that everyone in Africa is starving and such. Obviously that's not true. In the article, it said that obesity is an epidemic that has gone global and is worse than we thought. I know we've all heard that this is becoming a major issue, and I have no doubt that it is, but I will say of all the epidemics...it's not the worst problem to have. Think of the Great Depression where a majority of the population was starving. Maybe this is a roundabout way of our world shedding it's malnutrition epidemic, even if replaced by one of obesity. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/01/health/global-obesity-study/index.html